keeplock

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keeplock (uncountable)

  1. Total or near-total confinement to a prisoner to their cell.
    • 1989 December 17, Edward Inman, “Disobeying An Order To Piss Lands Transsexual In Isolation”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 5:
      I was sentenced to 90 days 'keep-lock' in order 'to deter other inmates from disobeying an order to urinate.'
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